Hi All

Please can someone confirm whether there is or is not an issue when accessing a PCI bus device from different threads. 
In my application, I intend to connect to a PCI bus attached FPGA using;

pci_attach_device( NULL,(PCI_SHARE | PCI_SEARCH_VENDEV | PCI_INIT_ALL),0,&PCI_device_info );

I then hope to map the device into memory using;

mmap_device_memory( NULL,PCI_device_info.BaseAddressSize[1], PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE | PROT_NOCACHE, MAP_SHARED,
PCI_device_info.CpuBaseAddress[1] );

Then access the memory as if it were ordinary memory. I want to be sure that there is no issue with different threads 
accessing different parts of the mapped memory when running on a multicore SMP system. Can I assume the OS / BIOS will 
manage the PCI bus access to separate mapped areas by separate threads? Obviously if the threads need to access the same
 memory mapped location then I would need to prevent simultaneous access. But do I need to prevent simultaneous access 
to different mapped areas?

Kindest regards,
Alastair

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